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Case Conference

Complex Extrication and Crush Injury

Kevin Burns From the Section of EMS, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine (KB, DCC), New Haven, Connecticut; and the Department of Traumatology, Emergency Medicine, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hartford Hospital (JVP), Hartford, Connecticut.Correspondence[email protected]
, PA-C, EMT-P,
David C. Cone From the Section of EMS, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine (KB, DCC), New Haven, Connecticut; and the Department of Traumatology, Emergency Medicine, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hartford Hospital (JVP), Hartford, Connecticut.
, MD &
Joseph V. Portereiko From the Section of EMS, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine (KB, DCC), New Haven, Connecticut; and the Department of Traumatology, Emergency Medicine, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hartford Hospital (JVP), Hartford, Connecticut.
, DO
Pages 240-244 | Received 23 Jul 2009, Accepted 16 Oct 2009, Published online: 22 Jan 2010

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